[peel] Re: Tubular Bells TX Top Gear 29/5/73

[Martin Wheatley]

At 00:44 25/06/2007, you wrote:

>--- Martin Wheatley 
><<mailto:martinw%40martinwheatley.plus.com>martinw@...>
>wrote:
> > Through his career Peel has always been careful not
> > to take too
> > many risks with his employers - that's why he
> > survived at Radio 1
> > when people like Andy Kershaw didn't. He was always
> > too insecure about
> > his position
>
>I can't now remember - what did Andy Kershaw do to get
>fired? Or "let go"?
>
>pb

Kershaw would loose his temper anytime Radio 1 wanted to
make any changes to his prog.  He'd do things like write
aggressively anti-BBC articles in the Guardian and Observer
and threaten to resign.  Eventually they got fed up and called his bluff

The irony is that he's ended up at Radio 3 in exactly the sort
of time slot that he complained about so much at Radio 1

Peel was much more softly softly.  When he had any trouble
with the hierarchy he mobilised friends behind the scenes at the BBC
who would start letter writing compains from famous people to
the NME and so on.  He was always afraid that if he threatened
to resign they'd just say 'yes please'

martinw